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We can hope that this is due to a strike due to the vaccine mandate. Southwest is blaming in on ATC and weather, but ATC called them out and said that they're not the problem. So, best case scenario, Southwest still lied to all their customers.
The scary bit is that you can bet going forward that vaccine mandate strikes will be spun and labelled as shutdowns due to too many employees being sick with COVID-19, and they'll use it to push even more fear.
Few events expose how history is fake than the January 6 false flag. I watched it happen live uncommentated, and watched full, unedited primary source (streams, mostly), again, uncommentated. I developed opinions. Then and only then was I exposed to articles about it, which pushed opinions that did not line up at all with what I had witnessed. I thought for sure those articles would be kicked aside by the average Joe, but that was the narrative that stuck. Now it's apparent that history books will forever label that day an insurrection attempt.
If history that you personally witnessed is written wrong, how can you assume that any written history is accurate?
The requirement to list an accommodation is the scariest one, because employers have the right to fire you if your religious beliefs cannot be reasonably accommodated.
And it's the most subjective. Even if you believe what the CDC says about the vaccine fully, the risk posed by a single unvaccinated individual in a room full of vaccinated individuals is insignificant. Certainly less significant than other risks a person is expected to accept by existing. So a reasonable accommodation should not be needed.
This is the type of thing that is argued and often won in decent courts. But someone needs to sue and set precedent.
This is exactly what I thought of, except I would take it a step further. I haven't even so much as been to a doctor or taken a prescription medication in my adult life.
In truth, would I go to a doctor if the need arises? Probably, but giving into that strong temptation for a wordly fix does not invalidate my religious beliefs, anymore than saying having premarital sex after being surprised makes someone less Christian.
All HIPAA ensures is that the information in their VRS system is not made public. This is likely exactly why they have a "system" in the first place, rather than just having HR keep copies on a database, to comply with HIPAA. It is also why many companies who cannot afford this type of system choose to not keep copies of your proof of vaccination, which would make them liable under HIPAA for how they store that information.
Well, considering many of these people will have just had their entire careers ended and left penniless, there is no risk. Nothing to take.
People laugh at Americans for not ever using their guns, but this is one thing that I simply cannot see happening in a rural area with deep gun culture. The police wouldn't be ballsy enough to go door to door instigating shit like this.
Reminder: The ONLY reason the FDA and the WHO is not yet recommending booster shots is because they believe recommending booster shots now will reduce public confidence in the shot, so fewer of the remaining people without it will get it.
Once they've solidified mandates, or otherwise gotten everyone to get the shot that they possibly can, they absolutely 100% will recommend endless booster shots.
I have never been anti-vax. I've always supported vaccines, and even made fun of people who were against them. But I am skeptical of the COVID vaccine, and it has made me have to consciously review my opinions on all other vaccines. I'm surely not unique in this regard, and I'm certain other people are in the same boat.
Speaking of: does anyone else remember how making fun of anti-vaxxers became so mainstream about four years ago? The memes were plentiful, and every anti-vaxxer was made fun of. Even at the time I thought it was a bit strange that memes that were literally about dead babies (things like "what is an anti-vax child's first words? None, he died before he could talk" or whatever) were so casually shared on Facebook and elsewhere.
Then Facebook announced they would be banning/censoring anti-vax content. Which made no sense to me at the time, even though I was on board with making fun of these people, because it's not like their movement was picking up steam.
And now, four years or so later, conveniently a vaccine is at the forefront of public debate.
The conspiracy theorist in me says that the anti-vax jokes and memes four years ago were all manufactured, set up precisely so that the average person associates anyone being against any sort of vaccine with a moron, knowing that in four years a questionable vaccine would be brought to market and they would need to win over public perception.
Oh, and as far as this list goes, I don't have experience with everything, but I do have an Instant Pot brand pressure cooker as well as Lodge cast iron skillets. Those to recommendations are genuinely solid, IMO.
I very much feel that Instant Pot brand pressure cookers will start slacking in the years to come and will become shit. But right now they're still in that phase where they build a quality product to build their reputation. Once that reputation is built, they'll probably be bought out by another company who will start cutting costs excessively and rely on that reputation to get them by. And people will continue recommending them because it's what they know and the recommendations get passed down from their parents and so on. Too many cases of this happening.
And the Lodge brand cast iron skillets. Well, they're cast iron skillets. They're a hunk of cast iron, what are you after? They work like you'd expect and are available everywhere.
Finding recommendations is so hard nowadays. There is so much bullshit to wade through. You search for a product recommendation and you first have to sift through the actual advertisements at the top, then the sponsored blog posts, then the obvious sponsored blog posts that they illegally don't disclose, and then the clickbait robot generated articles thrown together with repetitive phrases to trick the search engines.
And, worst of all, once you finally get to actual people's recommendations, you have to sift through the fact that most people don't know how to give a recommendation. People are stupid and don't seem to understand what's good and what isn't. Some people will recommend because the product has a gimmicky feature, even if the product is built like shit. Some people will recommend because the product worked at least once for them. Some people will recommend just because it's what they bought, and they subconsciously want to reaffirm to themselves that they bought the right one, so they tell other people they highly recommend it. It's all shit.
You eventually sometimes maybe can find someone's recommendation who spent the time to thoughtfully explain why exactly they recommend this product, what they use this product for, what similar products they've used in the past to compare it to, how long they've used the product, and what they don't like about the product.
I have best luck with product recommendations found in YouTube videos that I happen to be watching, but only when they meet the above criteria. Not so much videos specifically for the product, but recommendations mid-video in passing. But, obviously, this method doesn't work so great when you need a specific product and are actively looking for recommendations.
I have never knowingly spread conspiracy theories or false information. Everything I have spread I have believed to be genuine conspiracies and true information.
On the real, why the hell would anyone bother getting the flu shot this year when the official narrative showed almost no cases last year?
How do they even have a flu shot? Isn't the shot tailored to the yearly strain? Is there a yearly strain? How did they find that? What is this non-sense?